Cyber-Physical System for Smart Factories: Case Study of the Taiwan Instrument Research Institute of the National Applied Research Laboratories

A small-scale smart factory cyber-physical system (CPS) developed by the Taiwan Instrument Research Institute of the National Applied Research Laboratories uses visualization to decentralize big data searches and log mining. The ELK-acronym for three open source projects, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana-service effectively handles decentralized storage and processing, full-text searches, log mining, and visualization of big data. The real-time production system may thus be controlled to achieve smart management and factory optimization. This study introduced the construction of CPS, which connects with data obtained from optical factory sensors. Proposed to meet data collection needs, ELK was incorporated with an app to allow operation on mobile phones.